Could God Have Used Evolution?

(This is an email to a friend, who believes that God used evolution to create life, in reply to a previous debate that we had.)

Could God have used evolution to create life? I guess He could have, He is God, He can do anything. But that doesn't mean that He did.

You said that you don't take the Bible completely literally. Do you believe that Adam and Eve were two actual people, the two original humans, the parents of all of humanity? Do you believe in Jonah and the Whale? Do you believe the story about Cain and Abel? What about Noah's Ark and the Flood? Do you believe that Jesus existed? Do you believe that Jesus was crucified? Do you believe that He was resurrected? Do you believe that Jesus is God? Do you believe in a literal Heaven? Do you believe in a literal Hell, where God sends sinners to be punished for all of eternity? If there is no literal Hell, then why do Christians share their faith? Why did Christ die, if there was nothing to save us from? If you don't take the whole Bible literally, where do you draw the line?

Hebrews 6:18 says that God cannot lie. Proverbs 30:5 says that His Word is flawless. Why do you not believe Him when He says that He created the Universe in 6 days? Are the verses about Him not lying and His Word being perfect not literal? Why not believe the only eyewitness to creation?

Do you think that the Creation story in Genesis is referring to God creating everything by Evolution? Why are birds and fish created the day before land animals were? Did God mess up and forget that fish evolved into reptiles, which evolved into birds? Why are there no missing links? Evolution requires death. Survival of the fittest (or luckiest). God said that after Adam and Eve were created that creation was perfect. That there was no death. Adam brought death into the world when he sinned. This completely contradicts evolution.

You can be an ignorant Christian and believe in evolution. Why do you try to manipulate God's word to fit with evolution. The "theory" of evolution changes almost every day, with new evidence and discoveries that contradict previous beliefs. Christians should place their faith in God alone, not in man. Man's heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Evolution is just an excuse to deny the existence of God. Why would a Christian embrace such a "theory." I say "theory" because it is barely a hypothesis. You know that a hypothesis is an educated guess, evolution is uneducated. The more actual evidence that scientists find, the stupider evolution looks. Evolution in no way, should be considered a theory. Theories can be tested over and over again in a lab and are always found to be true. We have never been even close to replicating evolution in a lab, even with all the technology available to us.

The bottom line is- Could God have used evolution? Yes, but why would He take billions of years, when He could speak everything into existence.


Rick